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This study provides a web-based view of the University library website in India. The study intended to gain some insight into the user access and usability of the University Library website. The University library website is an access point for libraries in this digital era. This Covid-19 pandemic affected the Library usage pattern drastically. The library website gives the user access to library resources and services. Information Architecture examines the flow of Information on a website. A good website has a user-friendly information design and does not just focus on website appearance- 'looks'. The research design involved 40 participants at a given time and space. Testing was conducted on the Bangalore University library website using the post-graduate students studying at the University. The Usability testing was conducted to test the navigation through the Library website. A demographic study of the test subjects was also used to understand the needs and evaluate the homepage of the Bangalore University Library, Bangalore (BUBL) website. User experience and usability of the BUBL website were tested using a set of tasks performed by the library users. The study found the trust level of the BUBL website to be high in users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital library has gained significant importance in recent years as it provides a more suitable solution to access the knowledge or resources available anywhere and at any time. National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a digital platform that provides access to substantial digital storage of resources and encourages and inspires learning among the nation's people. This study aimed to analyze the awareness of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) among the students, teachers and research scholars of India and tried to assess its utilization and backdrops for further improvement. The empirical study was conducted in India, and the primary data were collected using Google Forms. Snowball sampling was used to collect data from 384 respondents, including students, research scholars and teachers. The study detected that the overall level of awareness of NDLI was low (39.3%) among the different groups, and students had the lowest (50.2%) level of awareness among other groups of respondents comparatively. A strong association was seen to exist between educational qualification and respondents' level of awareness. Apart from these, the users found the NDLI app useful; 54% of respondents were able to access the required content using the app and 71% of the users rated 'good' the app's performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Posts, Government of India, to date, has set up six full-time postal training centres (PTC) across India to meet the training requirements of its five-lakh strong workforce. PTC Madurai (PTCM), situated in Tamil Nadu, is one such training centre. PTCM has taken a proactive initiative to explore and adopt information technologies in the training and learning domains. It has partnered with the JRD Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, through a small project to set up a digital infrastructure to manage its training programmes and the library collection. PTCM was looking for a digital library to manage its training materials, an online catalogue for its library collection, and a website. The consultants used three different open-source software to implement the requirements of PTCM viz; EPrints1 for developing the digital library, Koha2 for the integrated library management system, and WordPress3 content management system for developing the website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advent of ICT tools and techniques in library environment library website has served as a gateway to reach out to library system and services. The present study deals with analysis of the content of top ten NIRF ranked universities located within India as per the rank list published in the year 2021 by taking into account 58 criteria arranged in nine checklists. From the study it was found that all the university libraries taken under study have covered a whole range of information related to general information, library collection and E-resources possessed by them. Very few university libraries have included Information related to library sections and the volume and variety of information related to library services and value added services in the libraries is not satisfactory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the level of awareness and usage of open source digital repository software (DRS). The paper also studies the factors, which influence the level of awareness and usage of different open source DRS by academic librarians in India. Design/methodology/approach: The study administered an online questionnaire to academic librarians in India to know their level of awareness and usage of open source DRS. The questionnaire aimed to gather the awareness and usage of open source DSR. In total, 374 complete responses were collected from academic librarians in India and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Moreover, Fishers' exact test was used to identify whether factors i.e. qualification and participation in workshop/seminar influence the level of awareness and usage of open source DRS. Findings: The results of the study reveal that the level of awareness and usage of open source DRS, namely, DSpace (Mean = 2.92, SD = 0.906) and Greenstone digital library software (GSDL) (Mean = 2.18, SD = 0.699) are high amongst the academic librarians in India. In total, 33.4%, 11.5% of the participants are using DSpace and GSDL, respectively, on regular basis. Fishers' exact test shows that factor(s) i.e. qualifications and participation in workshop/seminar affect the level of awareness and usage of open source DRS. The results show that there exits strong relation between participation in workshop/seminar and awareness and usage of DSpace (Fishers' exact test = 13.473, p < 0.05). Originality/value: This paper is the new type of study exploring level of awareness and usage of open source DRS by academic librarians in India. It identifies the factors that affect the awareness and usage of open source DRS. It is the first study to analyze the statistical significance between Indian librarians' participation in workshop/seminar and their level of awareness and usage of different open source DRS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to investigate the level of awareness, attitudes and skills of information communication technology ((ICT) among LIS professionals southern region of India. Further it investigate whether qualification of LIS professionals using ICT based applications, digital library software, skills to manage of ICT based library services attitudes towards impact of ICT applications. A survey was conducted through online questionnaires to assess the level of awareness, attitudes and skills by library science professionals of Pharmacy colleges in Bangalore of southern India. Total 55 questionnaires were distributed and 43 filled questionnaires were collected from LIS professionals. The collected data were analysed using recent MS excel sheet. LIS professionals are having excellent skills to manage e resources like library website, Open Access Journals and Books, ETD and library consortium and average skills to use OPAC by the majority of respondents followed by below average and above average skills to use online open access catalogue in their institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study contains the results of a research conducted to know the user's perception about a national digital library system in India called Abhilekh Patal of National Archive of India, New Delhi. This paper aims to gain an insight about the broad scenario of usability studies in India and the researcher has collected necessary data using a structured questionnaire based on a modified criterion containing eight usability attributes. This research also aims to know the problem area of digital platforms developed for users of National Archive of India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electronic resources are a modern concept with latest techniques and methods and a step further towards digital library. Its main objects is to provide facilities of elearning, e-journals, e-sources, e-books, e-contents and e-publishing with the help of internet at regional, national and international level through consortia. The Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidalaya libraries have moved steadily forward in creating new ambiances for electronic resources. The present study concentrated on evaluation of the use of electronic information sources and their overall problems in the use of electronic information sources and services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To find the status of IT implementations in the digital library in universities of the Jammu and Kashmir region information was collected through questionnaire. Analysis of the responses helps understanding the status and level of digital library implementation by taking right steps within the existing resources. It will help formulation of recommendations for establishing, implementing and enhancing existing level of the component specially in pooling the resources by the universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize a digital library acceptance model and its validation. Based on the extant literature and interviews with experts, a sixty-three statement questionnaire was developed and a survey was conducted to test the proposed model. The target population included library professionals and users from academic institutions in India including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. These sixty-three statements were categorized into seventeen dimensions on the basis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model and two information success models. The model was tested using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The findings suggest that digital libraries can become more useful and acceptable to targeted user groups when they are developed in accordance with four major factors: systemic aspects, informational aspects, perception of the relevant social group, and user learning. This study is unique as it is the first time such a model has been developed for digital libraries with respect to social construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital library has taken a long stride towards the development and extension of library and its services not only beyond the four walls but beyond borders. Taking advantage of information technology, corporate bodies and institutions have already moved ahead in this area and created the digital library to harvest its rich fruit. In order to ascertain the status of IT application in the universities of Jammu & Kashmir, literature on the subject was surveyed. The literature search reveals existence of and access to e-journals, open archive journals, institutional repositories, knowledge management, digital divide, open source software, ICT and education. The search also shows that very little work has been done in the universities of this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) has started building up the digital library collections by scanning its valuable rare books during July 2011. The GIPE's digital library uses open source software DSpace for building its digital repository. Currently, repository holds more than 7500 digital documents. These documents are available to all the scholars across the world. The present paper discusses the methodology adapted for its digital library building. The various processes involved were: Identification of the vendor, identifying the documents to be scanned or digitised, overall work flow, preparation of the metadata in excel, converting the data into Dublin Core XML format and then finally uploading the metadata into DSpace server. Unique feature of this digital library is the bulk upload of the metadata along with digital data files of all the digital documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the need for digital libraries for open and distance learners in India. It also highlights the various features of the digital libraries for open and distance learners; looks into the problems and issues related to the provision of library services to the open and distance learners in India. Utility of digital libraries is further examined and strategies for its adoption are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study attempts to identify the awareness on digitisation trends and techniques among the library professionals in and around Chennai. The empirical data were collected, through questionnaire method among 540 LIS professionals working in 348 institutions of different domains such as Medical, Engineering, Arts & Science and Polytechnic. Out of which 432 (80.0%) questionnaires were responded. Out of 432 (80.00%) responded, 62.5% are male; 37.5% are female; 36.80% are belong to Engineering; 30.75% are from Arts & science; 20.60% are from Medical and 11.80% are from Polytechnic institutions. The collected data were analysed using SPSS package. The opinion of professionals were obtained on various digitisation trends and techniques such as digital storage, storage security, various formats, metadata, standards, servers, software etc. It is identified that their exist awareness on digitisation trends and techniques as well as inquisitiveness in continuous learning on the conceptual factors of digitisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the digital library as an assemblage of digital computing, storage, and communications machinery together with the content and software needed to reproduce, emulate and extend the services. Definition of digital library, what is digitization, need for digitization, digitization process, problems in digitization, hardware and software for digitization, challenges of library professional, challenges of digitization of library, role of library professionals, digital library: initiatives and the future of digital libraries in India are included in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in 32 Engineering College Libraries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu by investigating the ICT infrastructure, current status of library automation, barriers to implementation of library automation and also librarians' attitudes towards the use of ICT and the availability of computers in libraries. Data-gathering tools used included questionnaire, observation and informal interview with selected college librarians. It is observed that 31.2% of libraries use only one computer for OPAC and 31.2% of libraries have less than 5 computers for internet access. 37.5% of libraries have 5-10 computer to access e-resources, 31.2% libraries have membership in INFONET. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitization is an important aspect of developing digital libraries as it opens up new avenues of access, use, research and preservation of valued information resources. The Gandhi Smriti Library of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, has taken up the digitization of non-copyright rare and fragile documents for the Digital Library of India (DLI) project, which is being realized by C-DAC, Noida. The library is also planning to develop its own scanning facilities for digitizing the institutionally produced literature. This paper makes an attempt to describe the digitization initiative and highlights the challenges and policy plans for developing a digital library at the Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

E-learning is a nebulous term; meaning teaching-learning facilitated through the modern media like web, satellite, cable networks, etc. Though it is successful in spreading its wings on today's higher education sector, it's linkages with the libraries are stilt feeble. The academic and other types of libraries, especially from the developing countries such as India, are struggling to cater to the increasingly heterogeneous requirements of the e-learners and associated community, This paper presents the key role of LIS professionals in the e-learning paradigm. After a thorough analysis of the e-learning scenario, authors have realised that libraries and librarians have an important role to play possibly through the digital libraries-a contemporary movement growing along-with the e-learning. The aspirations of e-learner community from the LIS professionals in this new era of e-learning are propagation of the movement itself, course content development, technical facilitation, technical trouble shooting, fuelling open-archives, improving user interfaces, identifying and training the usage of free and open source software tools to the user community to ensure maximum participation in teaching-learning process. The paper also discusses e-learning-library linkages and the innovations implemented in the top ranking off-shore public libraries that the Indian LIS community can follow. It reveals an emanating strongly bonded model of e-learning-library linkage required for the sustainance and mutual growth of the duo. This will also lend a hand in emerging an open knowledge culture and ultimately beneficial for the evolving knowledge society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of digital technology and computer networking have provided means whereby information can be stored, retrieved, disseminated, and duplicated in a very fast manner. Digital libraries have made considerable advances, both in technology and its applications. The digital library initiatives at international level are many, but in developing counties like India they are still in a nascent stage. But with the initiative like Million Book Project, initiated by Carnegie Mellon University, the culture of digital library has also made a beginning in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]